The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.
If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of polities'. All issues are political issues.
There is a humility about genuine love that is rather horrible in some ways.
What now strikes as remarkable about the new moneyed class of the nineteenth century is their complete irresponsibility;they see everything in terms of individual success, with hardly any consciousnes...
People worship power in the form in which they are able to understand it.
If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.
For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.
Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
How could you make appeal to the future when not a trace of you, not even an anonymous word scribbled on a piece of paper, could physically survive?
Before the war and especially before the Boer War it was summer all the year round.
Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that is always changing and yet is felt to be mystically the same.
I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have...
The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.